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Wait, what happened to episode 26...OH I GET IT!

Transmediacrity Episode 27: We Haven't Killed The Abrahamic God Since The SNES

Jupiter's electromagnetic field contains THE POWER.

Esther is back from the battle of the Trinary Star System. Now the course of history can resume.

Topics include: the state of liberal propaganda on television; the GameGriper; shitting on the sidewalk to own the libs; my first move since I became a full grown idiot; Esther kept playing Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse and she’s here to say; which society sounds best; Dagda; SMT Scathach vs dope baedysuit queen; Dagda’s mom; there’s still the Abrahamic god; WHY DON’T THEY PUT PERSONA ON THE ~SWITCH~; Madiha beat Doom 2016 and she has Feelings; FPS raid boss; strafing enemies across the entire room; worth $60; overwhelmed by SNAPMAP; game development teams are a mini Ship of Theseus; Millennial John Carmack’s “Woke Doom”; Madiha is still reading HAKAIOU ~ GAOGAIGAR VS. BETTERMAN; Somnium lore; eldritch horror; our listeners should really listen to Betterman Anime Club; Madiha deep Betterman lore cuts for 20 minutes; WE STAN MICATEAM; WE WILL SHILL YOUR GAME FOREVER; Girls Frontline is good; team 404 is good and strong and my friends; Esther played the Shin Megami Tensei mobile game; steampunk patrick klepeck; gun otaku girl; brand new assets; the comments on the demons; Madiha sends hatemail; if you have more sentience than Madiha, who is turing incomplete, send us that mail; Kizuna Ai poppin’ the biggest bottles.

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Willem seems so disappointed in this fact...

So instead of making the story about the political maneuvering in the former EK they’re going all-in on the mind-control plotline? Sigh... At this point, I think it’s safe to say that Bryke don’t know how to write political stories. Every time they introduce a political topic like relations between benders and non-benders in Republic City or discord between the two Water Tribes, they always end up walking it back, changing the subject, or having the issue hinge on some piece of magic or technology rather than on the thoughts and actions of the characters. There’s no shame in not having the knack for writing politics, but when you keep trying to do it despite making a hash of it every time, you really need to step back and reconsider a few things. Heck, Faith Erin Hicks is handling the divisions in proto-Republic City in the AtLA comics far better than Bryke ever did. On a more speculative note, a part of me wonders if DiMartino is actually going to go so far as to walk back the end of B4 and Kuvira ruler of the Earth Kingdom again. Wouldn’t that be a hell of a thing. (Also, is it just me, or Asami just become a damsel in distress for Korra to save ever since their relationship began?)

It’s Korra and Kuvira vs Mako, Bolin, and Asami in The Legend of Korra: Ruins of the Empire Part 3!

We now have the cover and description and they come with a major bombshell: Part Two is still months out and Part Three even further after that, but Mako, Bolin, and Asami become brainwashed and turned against Korra, along with others across the Earth Kingdom, .

This could be the result of the scientific experiments using spirit energy the Earth Empire remnant was conducting.

This is actually kind of exciting because we’ve never seen Team Avatar battle each other before and that’s now a possibility. Of course, Korra should realistically have a much higher base power level, but who knows what the spirit energy experiments have up their sleeve…

Here’s the full description:

“Kuvira’s true nature is revealed, and the Earth Kingdom will feel the consequences!

Thanks to Commander Guan and Doctor Sheng’s brainwashing technology, all hope for a fair election in the Earth Kingdom is lost. Korra works with Toph, Su, and Kuvira to plan a means to rescue not just the brainwashed Mako, Bolin, and Asami, but everyone else caught up in Guan’s plan! With the Earth Empire potentially on the rise again, Kuvira pulls another trick from her sleeve … but whose side is she truly on?”

You can see the cover and description for Part Two here. It comes out November 12th.

Part Three arrives on February 25th, 2020.

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Eeeeeee I love it!:D

I've got another sketch idea for you: Kuvira as Captain Kirk, and Bataar as Spock! (It's a bit of an in-joke; Todd Haberkorn, Bataar's VA, also played Spock in the online fan series "Star Trek Continues".)

Daily Kuvira #30 - NEEEEEEEERRRRRDs

You can tell this was Baatar’s idea.

Also bonus from my fav podcast:

My go-to source for the history of scientific romances is Brian Stableford’s 1985 book Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950. (While long out of print, this book is worth its weight in gold.) In Stableford’s account, scientific romances are very much the products of the environment they evolved from. Before the 1890s, publishing in Britain was divided into two rigid categories. On the “respectable” side were the great triple-decker novels, conservative in both style and content, and physically inaccessible to anyone who wasn’t wealthy or who didn’t have access to a circulating library. On the less reputable side were, of course, the penny dreadfuls; cheap to make, quick to read, easy to forget, and not that well-written. Scientific romances (and to a certain extent modern sf) tend to work best in the range between short stories, novellas, and single novels; long enough to properly extrapolate from a central idea, but not so long as to wear out their welcome. It was only at the end of the 19th century, with the decline of the triple-decker, the rise of a literate middle class, publications that catered to them, and of writers that could comfortably support themselves writing for this new audience, that scientific romances had the space and opportunity to emerge. Naturally, this was a different class of writers with different influences that those who had written the gothic works from earlier in the century, so scientific romances evolved in both style and content in a much different direction. (As an example, scientists in 19th-century Britain had a unique tradition of penning essays to explain their theories and their significance to a more general audience, a tendency that was absorbed wholeheartedly into the scientific romance, to the point that both scientists and novelists tried their hands at both essays and stories every so often.)

I was thinking about the literature of 1897 and it got me thinking about the Scientific Romances and how they differ from the Gothic Romances or Gothic Horrors of the age. Clearly, there is some overlap and Frankenstein (much earlier but still relevant) crosses those borders many time without showing a passport for either but by the late 19th you couldn't really compare say 'The War of the Worlds' to 'Dracula'. Where did they diverge so wildly? Or did they?

That’s a really good point, and I’m sorry I took so long to get to this question!  Arguably, Frankenstein himself brings this up- he started out reading ancient mystic texts and moved to more scientific ones later- but I guess there started to be a clearer divide between what we’d call fantasy and what we’d call science fiction as science itself became better known.  You could probably write gothic science fiction in the mode of Asimov, where the science is there to set up philosophical and psychological issues- I’d certainly read about the drama between robot heirs to their creators’ estate and legacy- but the divide certainly feels there.  Returning to H. G. Welles, maybe The Invisible Man is the midpoint?  Or maybe it’s when “scientist” became a common enough profession to not seem mysterious?  Any followers with ideas on this subject, help me out here!

As the kids on Tumblr say, “big mood.”

Forgive my bluntness, but isn’t the Myers-Briggs system based off of a deeply simplified interpretation of Jungian psychology that mental health professionals (Jungian psychologists or otherwise) consider littler better than a horoscope? Are companies actually using the test as a way to judge candidates? (Mind you, we could probably say the same things about IQ tests.)

Study Myers-Briggs and learn to fake out the test to thinking you’re an “SP” or “SJ”, preferably extroverted type, depending upon the job that’s giving you a personality test. I suspect that lots of non-professional jobs and non-tech jobs are specifically weeding out people who would map to Myers Briggs NT or NF types, and using iNtuitive Thinker traits as a proxy for autism. Make sure you can fake the test out to your cisnormative personality type expected of your gender; that will be T if male and F if female. I highly suspect that iNtuitive (Thinker or Feeler, but especially Thinker in any retail setting) personality traits are being mapped to unemployable neurodivergence by employment related personality tests.

He likes his boxes.

He sat in this container like this for 20 minutes.

I’m both disgusted and entertained. Of course, as both a Simpsons fan and a sadist, I have a challenge for you: * Cloves * Tom Collins mix * Frozen pie crust

Dooooooooooooooo it.

Finally. The great taste of Worcester Sauce in a soft drink!

(and I know. It’s pronounced “Woostah”)

Look, @coppermarigolds, Space Kuvira rides again!

The most passive-aggressive move Star Wars’s tie-in novels ever made toward their scifi franchise competition: the cover artists started drawing the evil Admiral Daala in a very similar way to Voyager’s Captain Janeway.